Name: BigHand Business Intelligence powered by Iridium
Author: BigHand

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Data Discovery and Visualization

Document Management

Enhanced 911 (E911)

File Sharing

Risk Management

Statistical Analysis

Enterprise

Accounting

Invoicing

Subscription Management

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

HR Management

Payroll

Recruitment Agency

Recruitment Automation

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Cloud Storage

Data Lakehouse

Data Mapping

Firewall Security Management

Fraud Detection

IP Address Management (IPAM)

In-Memory Databases

Incident Response

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Log Management

Managed IT Service

Network Performance Monitoring

Password Management System

Release Management

SOA Application Gateways

Web Portal

WiFi Hotspot

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Appointment Scheduling

Audio Editing

Content Management

Customer Reference Management

Email Marketing

Email Testing

Marketing Automation

Product Sampling

Retail Media Advertising

Social Media Management

Social Media Marketing

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

Field Service Management

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Lead Generation Services

Lead-to-Account Matching and Routing

Multichannel Retail

Sales Coaching

Sales Gamification

Social Commerce

Sales

Architecture

InsurTech

Laboratory Information Management

Legal Billing

OSS/BSS (Operations Support/Business Support)

Oil and Gas

Real Estate

Vertical-Specific

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BigHand Business Intelligence powered by Iridium is an advanced financial business intelligence solution specifically designed for law firms. According to the vendor, it offers customizable dashboards and reports that provide insights into the financial performance of the firm, including profitability at various levels such as overall, individual clients, and matters. This software solution is targeted at law firms of all sizes and is utilized by legal professionals, law firms, legal finance teams, firm management, and operations teams within the legal industry.

## Key Features

**Customizable Dashboards and Reports**: According to the vendor, BigHand Business Intelligence powered by Iridium offers fully automated reporting on the financial performance of law firms. Users can drill down into key financial KPIs such as fees, time, collections, profitability, and general ledger (GL). The solution provides customizable dashboards and reports for visualization and analysis.

**Modules and Warehouse Data Storage**: The solution provides modules for Profit, GL, Expense, and Revenue analysis, according to the vendor. It offers both traditional data storage and advanced analytical capabilities. The data warehouse replaces manual reporting with data visibility across the entire law firm.

**Advanced Modules**: According to the vendor, BigHand Business Intelligence powered by Iridium includes independent modules for Profit, GL, Expense, and Revenue analysis. These modules are tightly integrated with each other, providing a complete view of profitability and financials.

**Practice Management Plug and Play**: The vendor states that this solution allows for standard and rapid deployment against law firm financial systems. It seamlessly integrates with practice management systems, enabling easy data extraction and analysis.

**Role-Based Views / Access**: According to the vendor, users can enjoy different views and access levels based on their roles, such as Firm, Partner, Practice Group, and Individual. The solution displays key information relevant to each user's role, fostering a culture of commercial awareness.

**Intuitive Interface**: BigHand Business Intelligence powered by Iridium leverages existing Microsoft technical expertise, according to the vendor. It is designed to be easy-to-use with minimal training requirements. The vendor also claims that the solution is backed by 24-hour support for any technical assistance.

**Self-Service Analytics**: According to the vendor, users can view data in their preferred visualization tool, including PowerBI. The solution enables controlled access to relevant metrics for self-service analytics, empowering users to obtain instant answers.

**Profit Module**: The vendor claims that the Profit Module is tightly integrated with other modules, providing a complete view of the law firm's profitability. It offers insights into the overall firm performance and profitability.

**GL Module**: According to the vendor, the GL Module provides a robust foundation for analyzing and reporting on general ledger data. It offers drill-through capabilities to journal entries for detailed analysis.

**Expense Module**: The vendor states that this module monitors vendor expenses and identifies trends. It provides reporting and analysis of accounts payable (AP) by vendor, including aging buckets. Vendors can be classified by Vendor Type for further analysis and reporting.

BigHand Business Intelligence - powered by Iridium is an advanced financial BI solution for law firms with role-based reporting that delivers financial data to the right person via dashboards. The flexible data warehouse replaces manual reporting with data visibility from firm level to individual clients and matters. Self-service analytics provide controlled access to relevant metrics in any visualization tool of choice. The solution aims to help users to improve cash flow and profitability with immediate financial insight.

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BigHand

BI Platform

Administration via Windows App

Administration via MacOS App

Administration via Web Interface

Live Connection to External Data

Snapshot of External Data

In-memory data model

OLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)

ROLAP (SQL-layer querying)

Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)

Data warehouse / dictionary layer

ETL Capability

ETL Scheduler

Supported Data Sources

Data sources that can be consumed by the application.

MS Excel Workbooks

Text Files (CSV, etc)

Oracle

MS SQL Server

IBM DB2

Postgres

MySQL

ODBC

Cloudera Hadoop

Hortonworks Hadoop

EMC Greenplum

IBM Netezza

HP Vertica

ParAccel

SAP Hana

Teradata

Sage 500

Salesforce

Google Analytics

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

Pixel Perfect reports

Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.

Customizable dashboards

Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.

Report Formatting Templates

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

Drill-down analysis

Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.

Formatting capabilities

Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.

Predictive modeling

Predictive modeling is the ability to build future forecasting models.

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.

Report sharing and collaboration

Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Output Raw Supporting Data

Report Versioning

Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.

Report Delivery Scheduling

Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.

Delivery to Remote Servers

Ability to deliver reports to remote servers

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.

Predictive Analytics

Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.

Support for Machine Learning models

Machine learning refers to computer programs that can learn when exposed to new data.

Pattern Recognition and Data Mining

Pattern recognition and data mining mean the ability to recognize hidden patterns in large quantities of data.

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

Multi-User Support (named login)

Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.

Role-Based Security Model

Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.

BigHand Business Intelligence powered by Iridium

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